Amazon Web Services has launched a new cybersecurity managed service intended to help clients protect web applications against three types of distributed-denial-of-service attacks. AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr wrote in a blog post published Thursday the AWS Shield  offering is designed to work alongside Elastic Load Balancing, CloudFront and Route 53 platforms. AWS Shield consists of a standard […] More

Palo Alto Networks has integrated its virtualized firewalls with the auto scaling and elastic load balancing platforms of Amazon Web Services in an effort to help joint customers secure their workloads. The companies seek to help clients automatically scale cyber breach prevention tools as their cloud-based workloads fluctuate through the use of VM-Series firewalls in conjunction with AWS Lambda, CloudFormation Templates and Amazon CloudWatch services, Palo […] More

NASA has partnered with BSN medical to develop a compression garment that will work to help reduce an astronaut’s risk of experiencing rapid heart rate, low blood pressure and lightheadedness after a long-duration spaceflight. A team of scientists from NASA and Russia currently examines the potential of BSN’s JOBST three-piece elastic gradient compression garments to protect against post-spaceflight orthostatic intolerance, the company […] More

Digital Reasoning has unveiled its latest cognitive computing platform designed to improve on unstructured data analytics and time-to-value for consumers through its new functions. The Synthesis 4 makes use of a number of technologies, such as machine learning, NLP, computer vision, pattern recognition and knowledge representation, to allow analysis delivery through interactive data exploration tools and intelligent […] More

Big data analytics and visualization technology company Zoomdata has formed new federal practice partnerships with Deloitte, Northrop Grumman and Unisys as part of a new program focused on data services to U.S. government agencies. Zoomdata said Tuesday it intends to train users on how to use its technology through the partnerships in an effort to help agencies […] More

Maryam Emdadi, vice president of the EMC team at Carahsoft, has observed some government agencies tapping into modern information technology offerings to address data center agility and security challenges. She wrote in an article published Wednesday that government data centers seek tools intended to simplify administration of virtual desktops and automatically integrate security policy into the machines. Carahsoft […] More

Amazon Web Services has introduced new tools designed to help users analyze and integrate Next Generation Weather Radar data with workflows on AWS’ Simple Storage Service cloud platform. NEXRAD is a system composed of 160 Doppler radar sites that work to collect data that commercial firms and researchers use to predict severe storms, AWS said in a blog […] More

Blue Canopy Group has received a five-year, $39 million prime contract to build a high-performance computing infrastructure hosted on Amazon Web Services‘ cloud environment for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission‘s office of information technology. The HPCI will feature a big data analytics function in support of SEC’s efforts to detect high-frequency trading and stop fraud, Blue Canopy […] More

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has tapped into Cloudera big data technology as part of an initiative to monitor securities trading activities in the United States. Cloudera said Tuesday that FINRA uses a regulatory infrastructure to merge data feeds from more than 4,000 securities companies and stock exchanges each day to uncover market manipulation incidents. The […] More

Allied Market Research has released a report that forecasts a Hadoop-as-a-service market value of $16.1 billion by 2020 and North America to account for the highest value of $11.6 billion among other regions covered in the study. The report projects Amazon Web Services, provider of the Amazon Elastic MapReduce HaaS service, to hold nearly 90 percent of […] More

Amazon Web Services has added multiple services to the company’s suite of cloud computing offerings designed to help U.S. government clients manage sensitive data in cloud environments. The AWS GovCloud (US) portfolio now includes the Glacier storage service, CloudTrail log management documentation and VM Import system for virtual machine migration, AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr […] More

Chris Borneman, vice president of Software AG‘s government solutions business, has projected changes for data center technologies and operations in the next five years. In an FCW opinion piece published Thursday, Borneman predicts the future data center infrastructure will comprise of processing, memory and storage hardware tiers and that applications will have an elasticity feature […] More